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For medical information about volunteer soldiers who fought in the Civil War, consult the National Archives series, "Carded Medical Records of Volunteer Soldiers in the Mexican and Civil Wars, compiled 1846 - 1865" found in [http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ Record Group (RG) 94, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 17862-1984, entry 534]. These cards relate to volunteers admitted to hospitals for treatment and may include information such as name; rank; organization; complaint; date of admission; hospital to which admitted; and date returned to duty, deserted, discharged, sent to general hospital, furloughed, or died. This series is arranged by state, thereunder by the number of the regiment (cavalry, infantry, and artillery are filed together under the common regiment number) and then by initial letter of surname.

There are microfilmed name indexes for each state. Consult state archives for records of state or local militias or National Guard units that were not federalized. Individual indexes to state volunteer regiments are available on microfilm for every Northern state and every Southern state except South Carolina.  

To order compiled military service records from the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] see [[Requesting copies of Civil War service and pension records]]. To order a service record you must have the soldier's name, rank and unit number.

The [[Family History Library|Family History Library]] has copies of most other Civil War records which are microfilmed. The following is a list of service records and indexes which are available on microfilm at the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] and the Family History Library.  See the Family History Library Catalog for complete bibliographic information. The indexes should include the soldier’s name, rank, and unit.  Union units were organized in Southern states.  The records below all refer to Union soldiers only, even though they may have been serving from Southern states.